Revision as of 13:54, 17 February 2013

recordMyDesktop is screencasting software for X. It can record audio through ALSA, OSS or the JACK audio server. It is the only screencasting software able capture through jack and thus is important for pro-audio video tutorials. recordMyDesktop only outputs to Ogg using Theora for video and Vorbis for audio.

recordMyDesktop is a CLI tool but there are two GUI interfaces available, gtk-recordmydesktop and qt-recordmydesktop.

Installation

The packages recordmydesktop, gtk-recordmydesktop and qt-recordmydesktop can be found in [community] for both i686 and x86_64.

Usage

The basic usage is not too hard and it provides a man page. Here is a simple example using jack for audio capture:

recordmydesktop --use-jack system:capture_1

Troubleshooting

Current versions behave weird and need strange parameters to work properly. Try this for non-choppy capture:

recordmydesktop --use-jack system:capture_1 --v_bitrate 2000000

Audio record is lagging

If it appears that you have lags (error message when starting from the shell: Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.) in your audio record (often with Intel onboard cards) then it might help to change the audio device. This can be done in two ways.

1. Assuming that the terminal version is used then recordmydesktop should be started with the following command.

$ recordmydesktop --device plughw:0,0

2. If a GUI is used then you can change the device from DEFAULT to plghw:0,0 in the audio tab of the settings.